Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1941 — Page 24
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SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
INDIANAPOLIS BASEBALL officials always will gemember May 14, 1941, as a day of reverses and gengral bad luck. . . . They were struck from all angles, ineluding box office, player strength, money lost on publicizing their home-coming, and a decision lost when league headquarters tossed out Manager Killefer's pro-
test on a game dropped to the Brewers in Milwaukee.
The Indians were a cinch to draw a big crowd last night had balmy weather prevailed, what with a 10-day build-up in the press and on the air, but the weatherman turned thumbs down and the Tribesters and Colonels were compelled to remain idle on account of wet grounds and a constant threat of additional rain. Most destructive blow to the Indians’ future, however, was the loss of Third Baseman Chuck Aleno to the Cincinnati Reds. . . . The panicky champs recalled the big fellow and he departed for the Queen City today. Aleno was sent to the Redskins on a 24-hour recall agreement and there was nothing the local club could do about it. . . . The Reds’ regular third sacker, the veteran Bill Werber, was sidelined by injuries recently and his absence disrupted the champs’ infield. . . . Moreover, Werber was not hitting and the Reds’ utility infielders also failed to come through So General Manager Warren Giles, at the request of Manager Bill McKechnie, picked up the phone and contacted General Manager Leo Miller of the Indians and made an urgent order to ship Aleno to Cincinnati. . The Reds meet Philadelphia in a night game at Crosley Field tonight and Chuck probably will be perched on third when the bell rings. Aleno’s .348 batting average during his brief stay in the American Association was the direct cause of his recall to the majors. . . . The Reds have not been hitting, with nary a regular batting .300 . . . and naturally Bill McKechnie spotted Aleno’s healthy average and yelled for help. . . . Bill's team is floundering in the National League's second division 10'2 games off the pace.
Logan Back After Fourth Major Trial
THERE IS SOME MEASURE of consolation in Aleno’s loss now hat Pitcher Bob Logan has returned to Indianapolis, but the popu=lar Bob cannot play third base. The Indians gain in mound strength and are glad to see Lefty Bob in Tribe livery again. . . . He won 18 games for the Redskins last season and probably will be equally as effective this season. The Reds sent Logan here on option after purchasing him at the close of last season. ... It was Bob's fourth trial in the majors, going from Indianapolis each time. . . . First with the Dodgers, next with the Reds, then with the Cubs and last with the Reds. The panicky Reds evidently mean business about shaking up the fading champs. . . . In addition to recalling Aleno last night and releasing Logan to the Tribe, they bought Outfielder Ernie Koy from the St. Louis Cardinals and shipped Infielder Pep Young to the Rochester Internationals, a Cardinal farm.
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LOGAN HAD NO RECORD to speak of while with the Reds. ... lost one game in the relief role and received no starting assignHis 1940 record with the Indians was 18 games won, 14 most innings pitched in the American Association and a fine earned-run average of 3.10. . . . He worked 267 innings and pitched 24 complete games Logan is 31 years old. . . . His best year here was 1934, when he won 20 games against 14 defeats.
Baseball Luncheon Becomes Pepfest
THE THEME of the hour at the Chamber of Commerce athletic committee's “baseball luncheon” at the Indianapolis Athletic Club yesterday was pessimism plus a barrel of pep ... but that was before the Reds recalled Chuck Aleno, However, the baseball boosters gathered around the festive board and members of the Indians and Colonels were introduced. . . . Managers Wade Killefer and Bill Burwell made brief talks, Ed Kepner acted as master of ceremonies and related baseball incidents of the long ago. Governor Henry P. Schricker and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan called on the Indianapolis fans to get behind their team and give it some old-fashioned support. Bill Burwell recalled the many happy years he spent with the Indians before branching cut into the managerial business and Skipper Killefer predicted his Tribesters were going places. . . . League baseballs were passed around and players of both teams autographed them for the fans.
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THAT SCHEDULED FIREWORKS display that was knocked out when last night's ball game was washed out, was postponed until May 31, on the Colonels’ second invasion of the Hoosier capital. , . . The date falls on Saturday night, the day after the 500-mile race. « - The Indians play in Louisville on May 30, the big race day here. The Boston Red Sox yesterday optioned Pitcher Herbert Hash to the Colonels. . . . He starred with Minneapolis in the American Association in 1939, winning 22 games.
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Third Sacker Goes to Reds: Logan Returns
Ray Starr Will Hurl For Our Indians
Minus the services of Chuck Aleno, star third sacker and heavy hitter, the Indianapolis Redskins are scheduled to battle the Louisville Colonels under the Perry Stadium lights tonight in the delayed
night baseball opener. Game time has been set at 8:15 and Ray Starr, the team’s leading hurler, is to be sent against the Colonels. The Colonels also will remain over for a fame tomorrow night, an open date in the schedule, to take care of last night's postponement.
Squads Watch
Thirteen hundred soldiers from Fort Harrison and 400 sailors from the Naval Armory will be guests of the Indianapolis Indians at Perry Stadium this evening. The men from the camp will arrive in their own mechan-'' ized units and will march in with the naval recruits and take over the last three sections of the left field grandstand.
Pitcher Bob Logan is expected to be in a Tribe uniform tonight. He had a winning record with the Indians last year, winning 18 games against 14 defeats. He was purchased by the Cincinnati Reds last fall and optioned back to the Tribe today after the slipping Queen City team recalled Aleno. Replacing Aleno at third base tonight will be Joe Bestudik, rookie. He will be given a thorough trial as a Tribe regular. If he fails, Wayne Blackburn may be brought in from the outfield unless the Tribe chiefs make other arrangements by landing another experienced third sacker. The fireworks display scheduled last night will be staged when the Colonels make their next visit to Indianapolis on May 31. Last night's tilt was postponed on account uf wet grounds. The afternoon rain put the diamond out of commission, at least for the one night. The Indians’ current home stand schedule now reads: Louisville here tonight and tomorrow night; Columbus here Saturday night and in two games Sunday afternoon; Toledo here next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Next ladies’ night at the Stadium will be tomorrow.
Mud Hens Climb
To 1st Division
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Toledo replaced Columbus in the first division and Minneapolis had a firmer hold on first place in the American Association today. Both teams were victorious in the only games played yesterday. Minneapolis finished with a fourrun rally in the last half of the ninth inning to break up its night
Hughes. Johnson. Bruner, Hoerst, Beck S3M€ with St. Paul, 5 to 4. The | Klinger and Bapeincevich. Dietz, Bauers, game started as a pitching duel be-
tween Clay Smith of the Saints and Mickey Haefner of the Millers, but both were driven out before the finish. Toledo moved in ahead of Columbus by beating the Red Birds in a night game, 5 to 2. The Mudhens concentrated their scoring efforts in the fourth inning, getting four runs in that session. Kansas City at Milwaukee was rained out.
Amateurs
SOFTBALL
meet the Daugherty Homestead team next Sunday morning at 9 o'clock on the new Speedway City stadium. The recently completed diamond is opposite the entrance to the Speedway golf course.
Sunday School softball teams interested in playing on Saturday nights at Stout Stadium contact Joe Kelly at 209 W. Washington St. Call LI, 3446.
V. F. W.-624 Hoosier Post softball team will practice at Garfield Park this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock.
Two teams are needed to complete the Em-Roe Sunday Afternoon League at Garfield Park. Get in
395s | touch with Everett Babb, LI. 3446.
The Goldsmith Secos want night games with teams within 50 miles of Indianapolis. Write 535 S. Illinois St. Call LI. 1612.
The Indianapolis Eagles baseball team will meet at 43 W. Vermont St. Friday night at 8:30 o'clock to issue uniforms. The club will open against the Lebanon Merchants at
3 Lebanon Sunday.
Server Injured
Times Special MADISON, Ind., May 15.—Donald Server, the Madison High School basketball sparkplug who won the Gimbel medal, was recovering today from minor injuries received in an automobile accident.
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An Indian Again
In the transfer of players between Cincinnati and Indiananolis today, Lefty Bob Logan, above, returns to the Indians’ mound staff: and big Chuck Aleno, third sacker, goes to the Reds. Owned by the Reds, Aleno was here on a 24-hour recall agreement. Logan won 18 games against 14 losses for Indianapolis last season and returns on
rookie. qualified Leon Duray's car as the
So that makes Sam a veteran this year. Even so, the slim Caliicrnian is only 26 and still a kid among race drivers. Hanks is the jockey now for Ed Walsh, St. Louis construction magnate, who has entered a sleek orange speed wagon. The car is the only one in the race with independnt suspension on the front end and is powered by a four-cylinder 270-cubic-inch motor. There is no mechanic in the Walsh garage. All the work is done by either Hanks or Walsh, and both are well qualified to -doctor ailments under the hood. Sam gained his technical knowledge while working in the California oil fields, machining rock bits for drilis.
. ” n ” IT WAS BEFORE that the idea of race driving was born in Sam. At 20 he was driving a beer truck in Los Angeles and one of his fellow drivers was Ted Horn, now one of the best known pilots in racing. Sam and Ted would rush through their routes in competitive time trials. A year later Hanks began driving midget cars and that year was 12th in national standings. In 1937 he held the Pacific Coast midget championship and in the same year had a bad crackup at Oakland, Cal. He went through a fence and was badly hurt, but returned to campaigning in the East and in 1940 won the Michigan state championship. Hanks and Walsh still have a few minor adjustments to make on their car, but expect to roll it to the starting line during the first qualifying day—Saturday. ” = 2 FOR COMPARISON'S sake, here are the pole winners for the last 10 years and the speed they've made to win the p-e-race prize: Driver Russell Snowberger Lou Moore Bill Cummings Kelly Petillo Rex Mays Rex Mays hres, Bill Cummings .......e00.0. Floyd Roberts Jimmy Snyder ...........
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The world’s most exclusive organization, the Champion 100-Mile-an-Hour Club, will hold its seventh annual dinner Tuesday evening, May 27, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Sponsored by the Champion Spark« plug Co., the club is limited to those drivers who have gone the full 500 miles without relief at better than 100 miles an hour. The 21 members are Billy Arnold, George Barringer, Cliff Bergere, George Connors, Dave Evans, Fred Frame, Ted Horn, Rex Mays, Lou Meyer, Zeke Meyer, Chet Miller, Lou Moore, Kelly Petillo, Mauri Rose, Wilbur Shaw, Russell Snowberger, Babe Stapp, Joe Thorne, Louis Tomei, Frank Wearne and Howdy Wilcox. . = = = Leave it to master-mind Cotton Henning to produce something new. In the Boyle garage he has a device resembling a car’s steering apparatus, with a regular driver's seat behind the wheel. By
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Expects to Roll Saturday
By J. E. O'BRIEN
A YEAR AGO bridegroom Sam Hanks came to the Speedway a But he rode through his driving test in commendable style,
13th fastest in the field and then
piloted the machine to 13th place in the 500-mile race.
means of a plunger, he is able to control the pressure on the steering wheel. All three Boyle drivers—Wilbur Shaw, Chet Miller and George Connors—have to take turns on the apparatus. It's supposed to strengthen arm muscles and make those 500 miles seem shorter. # ” 2
IN AND ABOUT GASOLINE ALLEY. . . . Equipped now with a driver's badge, Emil Andres of Chicago is ready to take Joe Lencki’s six-cylinder car on the track. .. . Al Putnam, married since the last 500-mile race, hasn't a steed yet, but he’s confident he’ll sign for one. “I'm always a last-day qualifier” he laughed. . . . Joe Thorne has gone back to California and won't return until Friday. Uncle Sam, it seems, makes executives of those companies handling national defense orders, report every three days. And that’s what Thorne Engineering Corp. is doing. . . . Don’t forget that the qualifying speed has been hoisted five miles an hour this year to 115. Among the familiar faces missing this year is that of Babe Stapp. The genial, hard luck driver was burned severely last year in a midget spill on the Pacific Coast. Although he’s up and about, he’s still in no condition for Speedway driving. . .. Here's the trio we think will compose the first row of the Speedway lineup: No. 1, Rex Mays; No. 2, Wilbur Shaw; No. 3, Mauri Rose. That's right—same as last year. . F. E. Clemons, a hometown oldtimer of both dirt tracks and the Speedway, sent parts of his car through Magnaflux yesterday. The car is to be a four-cylinder creation with a 225 cubic inch motor. . . . It's understood that nc attempt is going to be made to qualify the second Marks car. . . . Too much work changing it over from a dirt-track model.
Rain Halts Golfers In Tournaments
Rain halted golfing endeavors yesterday, forcing the Highland
pone their until next Wednesday. The Indiana Senior Golf Association managed to play only a few holes in their tournament at Martinsville before rain interfered with the competition.
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Baseball Press Honors Dykes At New York
Will Receive Scroll From the Writers
NEW YORK, May 15 (U. P.). — Twenty-three years of playing a tough, dusty, man’s game of baseball come to an end today for Jimmy Dykes—
“Old Pegleg” to his mates.
The New York chapter of the Association has set aside the occasion as Jimmy Dykes day at Yankee Stadium ¢nd the pepper-pot manager of the Chicago White Sox, in action in che American League since 1917, will receive a scroll commemorating his retirement at 44. Dykes today is the same voluble, affable gentleman he always Las been, win or lose. Basecall's most celebrated cigar smoker—he smokes between 12 and 14 a day—Dykes was appointed manager of the Sox on May 9, 1934. He has been a consistently successful pilot, considering the material he has had During his managership, there's never been a man on the club who failed to play to the absolute limit of his ability.
it better than Jimmy. Off the Sandlots
Except for short trips to Gettysburg and Atlanta, Dykes has been a big leaguer since Mack plucked him off the Philadelphia sandlots. Jimmy played every position in the ii.field during his 15 years with the A’s and even put in a short spell as an outfielder. He has a lifetime batting average of 280 and hit over .300 for several years. His best mark was in 1929 when he hit .327 for the A's but even at late as 1937 when he had turned 40, he fashioned a .306 average in 30 games. Jimmy has lasted longer managing the White Sox—currently in third place, half a game behind the Boston Red Sox—than any of the other 14 pilots employed during the club's 40-year history. He took a last place club in 1934 when he succeeded Lew Fonseca, pulled it into fifth the following year and only once in succeeding seasons has he been out of the first division.
NEW YORK, May 15 (U.P).— Marse Joe McCarthy had a job on his hands today getting the New York Yankees untracked and headed in the right direction. Losing seven out of their last nine games, the Yanks have dropped to an even 500 and are in fourth place. Among McCarthy's many headaches are: 1. Putting the quietus on the home run balls the Yankee pitch2. Juggling the Yankee batting ers are serving up. order to get more strength in the | first three positions. 3. Getting some pitching out of the Yankee youngsters. 4. And, of course, finding a for(Continued on Page 26)
Cottey and Kong Fight Again
The weekly mit show of the Business Mens Sport's Club at the Armory Friday night will consist of five bouts with a total of thirtyfour rounds. The top half of the double windup will bring together for a return match, Bud Cottey of Indianapolis, hard hitting featherweight, and Jue Yee Kong of San Francisco. These two met two weeks ago in' one of the best bouts of the cur-! rent season. A close decision was handed Cottey by the judges. The other ten-rounder will fea-
ner over Carlos Manzano here last month, and Lou Wallach of St. | Louis. Wallach won the St. Louis] Golden Gloves featherweight title in 1939 and boasts, among his professional conquests, a victory over Kong. The six-round preliminary will be for the lightweight chan\pionship of Indianapolis in the professional ranks. It will feature Milton Bess, two-time local winner, and Robert Simmons victor here in his only other pro appearance.
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Tribe, Minus Aleno, Tries Again Tonight
Out for Records
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Threaten Sectional Records
By BOB FLEETWOOD From the spindle-legged kid with a kick in his gait to the lumbering heavy with beef in the weights the trackmen of Indiana high schools compete for honors in 15 sectional meets this week-end. Marion County and city cinder and field men will take their first test in the state eliminations at Tech's field on Friday and Southport’s
oval on Saturday.
whether to end the season or not on the Green's field where the! giant home team of 26 entries, defending its crown for the eighth straight year, is favored with Shortridge. Teams to the south face the title-holding Washington Continentals for the honors. | The two sectional carnivals in| the Indianapolis district will be] represented by around 200 athletes from 15 schools. | The problem involved is not so| much a team victory as that out-| standing boys can be weeded out | for the-state championship at Technical High School field on May 24.| Only the first and second place] winners plus the members of vic-| torious relay squads can advance. | To determine the team champion, points are awarded on a 5-3-1 basis, | with the relays counting double. Warren Central and Shortridge | are second in men entered on the; local track with 24 each. Ben Da- | vis has 15, Broad Ripple and No- | blesville 13 each; Plainfield, 5, and | Oaklandon, 1. | Johnson, Shelby and Hancock | County schools also will journey to | Southport where Manual, Howe, | Shelbyville, Southport and Green- | field are expected to afford the! West Siders plenty of competition. | Dust and the “Don't Disturb”| sign may have to be removed from the local record files when George | Kraeger, Shortridge star, prepares (Continued on Page 26) |
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